Daniel J. Sanders
Daniel Jackson Sanders was a Prebyterian clergyman who served as president of Johnson C. Smith University in North Carolina and published a Presbyterian newspaper for African Americans. He was the first African American president of a four-year college in the southern U.S.
Sanders was born a slave in Winnsboro, South Carolina.
Sanders attended Brainerd Institute and was a tutor at the school. He then graduated from Western Theological Seminary.
He published the Africo-American Presbyterian and served as president of Biddle University for 17 years.
Upon his death the Charlotte Observer reported that his students had always been "well-behaved".
